WELCOME! My name is Ari Wolfe and I'm a Deacon in the Episcopal Church. This site is a place for me to share my thoughts on faith and life and is especially for you if you're

Hello and Welcome!

My name is Ari Wolfe and I’m a deacon serving at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Battle Ground, Washington. I am a blacksmith and homesteader, living on a small farmstead in the Cascade foothills with my husband and a menagerie of goats, dogs, cats, and chickens. It’s both chaotic and spiritual and I love our life here. This website is a collection of homilies, anecdotes, prayers, and information that I hope you’ll find useful and maybe even inspiring.

Preaching

July 26, 2021

What We Do To Recharge: Sabbath and self-care

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June 7, 2021

Following Jesus’ Humanity: Why I am Lent People

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March 31, 2021

Rise and Shine: Entering Lent with embodied prayer

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Dancing Up the Sun

Today is May Day, Beltane in many parts of the world and in varying traditions, the day of welcoming the coming summer in the heart of spring. It is a day for new beginnings, for joy and for love… […]

First Numinous Experiences

In his book, What the Mystics Know, Richard Rohr writes about what he calls “the first numinous experience”, when our eyes are metaphorically opened and we see/understand/experience God or the Divine. I have a feeling that for me it happened very early… […]

Coffee, Compassion, and Joy

I have been reading and listening to a book in the past few weeks called, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World. It is the account of an extraordinary and poignantly sweet discussion between Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso; two world-renowned and esteemed octogenarian faith leaders from very different traditions having a deep and inspiring conversation… […]

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